Exercise soft pad with ventilation

ABSTRACT

An exercise soft pad with ventilation includes a pad body made of a foam material. The pad has a pad surface for its user to exercise thereon. The pad surface has several vent holes going through the pad body. Therefore, the hot air produced by the user exercising thereon can go out through the ventilation holes.

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION

1. Field of Invention

The invention relates to an exercise soft pad with ventilation and, inparticular, to a foam soft pad with ventilation.

2. Related Art

Owing to the prevalence of yoga and aerobatics, exercise soft pads havebecome a popular product. Most of them are made of foam materials.However, such soft pads are worse in ventilation. Therefore, the user islikely to experience hotness and humidity as he or she sweats. In theworst case, the sweats may make the pad so sticky that the pad is liftedwith body motion.

Therefore, it is the purpose of the invention to solve these problems bymodifying the surface of the soft pad.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION

An objective of the invention is to provide an exercise soft pad withventilation. Using an appropriate design of vent holes, hot air can beguided out as the user does exercises thereon. The user thus feels morecomfortable. The vent hole structure also provides cushion effects. Asuitable arrangement of the shape and pattern of the vent holes may evenachieve a decorating effect.

In accord with the above-mentioned objective, the disclosed soft padincludes a pad body made of a foam material. The pad body has a padsurface for the user to exercise thereon. The pad surface is formed withseveral vent holes going through the pad body.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

The invention will become more fully understood from the detaileddescription given herein below illustration only, and thus is notlimitative of the present invention, and wherein:

FIG. 1 shows the pad structure of the invention;

FIG. 2 shows the structure of the second embodiment;

FIG. 3 shows the structure of the third embodiment;

FIG. 4 is a schematic view showing the ventilation when the invention isin use; and

FIG. 4A is a local view of the disclosed pad body and vent holes indetail.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

The present invention will be apparent from the following detaileddescription, which proceeds with reference to the accompanying drawings,wherein the same references relate to the same elements.

With reference to FIG. 1, the exercise soft pad with ventilationaccording to an embodiment of the invention includes a pad body 1 thathas a pad surface 11 for the user to exercise thereon and several ventholes formed on the pad surface 11 and going through the pad body 1. Inthis embodiment, the vent holes 12 are distributed all over the padsurface 11 and are small circular holes.

Please refer to FIG. 2 for the structure of vent holes 12 going throughthe pad body 1. When a user exercises and touches the pad surface 11,the hot air produced by his/her body can be guided out via the ventholes 12 on the pad body 1 (see FIG. 4). Such a ventilating effectprevents the user from feeling hot and humid during the exercise.

Even when the sweats fall on the pad body 1, the structure of the ventholes 12 also prevents the pad body 1 from moving with the user'smotion.

The structure of the vent holes 12 can increase the cushion effect ofthe pad body 1. The user feels more softness on the pad body 1.

In addition to the above-mentioned features, the vent holes can havedecorating effects. As shown in the second and third embodiments,different arrangements of the vent holes form different patterns on thepad body 1, such as the brand name, logo, or lucky pattern. FIG. 2 showsthe second embodiment of the invention. The vent holes 12 going throughthe pad body 1 consist of large square holes 121 distributed all overthe pad surface 11 and small circular holes 122 in the middle portionforming the word MAT. The third embodiment shown in FIG. 3 shows onepossible pattern. Other patterns are also allowed by the invention.

Although the invention has been described with reference to specificembodiments, this description is not meant to be construed in a limitingsense. Various modifications of the disclosed embodiments, as well asalternative embodiments, will be apparent to persons skilled in the art.It is, therefore, contemplated that the appended claims will cover allmodifications that fall within the true scope of the invention.

1. A soft exercise mat with ventilation, comprising: a pad body made ofa foam material; a pad surface formed on opposing outer sides of the padbody for a user to exercise thereon; and a plurality of vent throughholes formed through the opposing pad surfaces and extending through thepad body for providing a cushioning effect, each vent hole defining anopen through bore for ventilating heated air from the user; wherein thedimensions of said exercise mat are adapted to be sized to permit thebody of a user to lie thereon.
 2. The soft exercise mat with ventilationof claim 1, wherein the vent through holes are distributed all over thepad surface and each vent through hole has a contour defined by a smallcircular hole.
 3. The soft exercise mat with ventilation of claim 1,wherein the vent through holes include large circular through holesdistributed all over the pad surfaces and small circular through holeshaving a diameter less than the diameter of said large circular throughholes formed in a pattern defining predetermined indicia.